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WASHINGTON — The usually affable Rep. Charlie Rangel has ripped into his conservative foes, comparing the Tea Party to racist “white crackers” and Republicans to “terrorists.”

“It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police,” the Harlem Democrat said of the Tea Party in a startling interview in the Daily Beast. “They didn’t care about how they looked. It was just fierce indifference to human life that caused America to say, ‘Enough is enough. I don’t want to see it and I am not a part of it.’ What the hell! If you have to bomb little kids and send dogs out against human beings, give me a break.”